Children's Health and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
Asian Social Work Journal (ASWJ)
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Children's Health and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
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Nakamura, Naoki
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The COVID-19 has caused challenges at all levels of society. It is necessary to, while carefully looking at impact that COVID-19 will have on children's health and well-being, and to steadily implement social work services accordingly. This paper highlights some key challenges and concerns for health and well-being on children and adolescents in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to consider how the COVID-19 pandemic and the policy taken to mitigating the risk of COVID-19 have impacted children in Japan. In conclusion, we are not saying that COVID-19 policy responses such as school closures overall are ineffective for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. However, as we have seen, school closing policy is likely to have a negative impact on children’s health and well-being such as increased risks of mental health, abuse and suicide. The important point is that these impacts is not the impact of COVID-19 but the impact of the policy responses to COVID-19. The policy responses are likely to lead to a range of unexpected impacts and results. Therefore, policy makers, social workers and other professionals always should consider for the impact of policy responses to COVID-19 on children and adolescents.
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Asian Social Work Journal
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2021-05-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://msocialwork.com/index.php/aswj/article/view/164
10.47405/aswj.v6i2.164 |
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Asian Social Work Journal; Vol 6 No 2 (2021); 1 - 8
0128-1577 |
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eng
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https://msocialwork.com/index.php/aswj/article/view/164/102
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Copyright (c) 2021 Asian Social Work Journal
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